News from Barrow News-Journal - Topics from September, 2012

It seems my life has been in a world steeped in testosterone. In the first place, I was raised in a household of males. All of my siblings were males. My father was a male. Most of the kids in my neighborhood were male. Many of my classmates were male. My early playmates were my brothers and their friends – all male. Oh sure, I had girls for ...
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Trying not to sound like a broken record, those working on the Braselton LifePath say the multi-use path is now on the verge of starting construction. “It’s really tough to keep saying we’re almost there,” said Scott Snedecor, chairman of the Braselton Community Improvement District (CID) board of directors, which is installing the ...
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A Jefferson woman was arrested in Winder Thursday night after being detained in the parking lot of the local YMCA by one of her alleged theft victims. According to a Winder Police Department press release, Lyndon Tubbs at about 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 discovered on his vehicle’s front seat an iPhone that didn’t belong to him. He took the phone ...
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Winder Barrow High School head football coach David Wagner called the Barrow Journal’s editor, Chris Bridges, last week to say neither he nor his staff of coaches would continue to cooperate with the newspaper’s coverage of his team. Wagner was miffed over an online poll last week that we posted on the Barrow Journal website. The poll asked ...
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Winder city officials could wind up with another dilapidated downtown building on their hands. After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars first to buy, and then to demolish, the turn-of-the-century Granite Hotel on East Athens Street, the city’s building inspector has condemned the privately owned 1940s-era Peskin’s building on West ...
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As announced earlier, there won’t be a millage rate hike this year for the Barrow County School System, but two members of the board of education believe it may be time to consider an increase. The Barrow County Board of Education officially set the millage rate at 18.5 mills in a called meeting Tuesday, the same rate it’s been for the last ...
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Hamstrung by stagnant tax revenues and declining tax bases, municipal leaders in Bethlehem, Auburn and Statham also have set their sights on annexing properties north or south of Highway 316 in unincorporated Barrow County. As the Journal reported last week, Winder officials have hired business broker Mike Rice to go door to door inviting ...
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The Town of Bethlehem is set to purchase the property at 18 E. Shepherd Street, which borders the back of city hall. In a called 10-minute meeting last Wednesday night, mayor Sandy McNab said the land’s owner, Ruth Maddox, has agreed to a $90,000 offer, which will be paid in three installments. For the full story, see the Sept. 26 issue of ...

The Auburn City Council passed its FY2013 budget last week, but it took the vote of the mayor to break a tie. Mayor Linda Blechinger cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the $2.85 million general fund budget. The council also hiked city water fees by $3 per month for senior citizens and $5 per month for everyone else. The new rates will go into ...
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All but one of the six candidates in local races Nov. 6 will participate in the candidate forum that the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Wednesday night. Not participating is Tim Riley, an Athens Democrat who for a second time is opposing incumbent Republican Sen. Frank Ginn for the 47th District seat in the Georgia Senate, said ...
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